Hellacious

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Distasteful and repellant: hellacious smog.
  • adj. Slang Extraordinary; remarkable: a hellacious catch of fish.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. nasty, repellent
  • adj. remarkable, unbelievable, unusual
  • Word Usage
    "He takes us back to his youth in "hellacious" Brownsville, Brooklyn of the 1970s, telling us that before he became a street thug, he was the target of neighborhood bullies because he lacked the confidence to stand up for himself."
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